Neuroaesthetics: An Emerging Discipline with Promises and Challenges(PDF)
《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2013年05期
- Page:
- 113-120
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- Title:
- Neuroaesthetics: An Emerging Discipline with Promises and Challenges
- Author(s):
- ZHANG Xiaojiang; LIU Yingjie
- Keywords:
- neuroaesthetics; aesthetic experience; beauty; production of artworks; neuroimaging
- PACS:
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- Abstract:
- As an interdisciplinary field emerging recently, neuroaesthetics is often conceived as the study on the neural basis of the production and appreciation of artworks. Researchers in this field have developed a variety of methods to achieve their research goals, including parallelism approaches, neuropsychological methods and neruoimaging techniques. Studies in neuroaesthetics at present have added a lot of facts to our knowledge of the neural basis of aesthetic experience and art production. As neuroaesthetics moves forward, several domains can be explored profitably. Firstly, studies on the neural basis of production of artworks (e.g. sculpture, literature, and dance) should be enhanced. Secondly, researchers should conduct indepth studies on aesthetic perception, aesthetic emotion and aesthetic judgment. Thirdly, the interaction between scientists of different disciplines interested in the biological underpinnings of aesthetic and artistic behavior should be strengthened. Neuroaesthetics can also benefit from intensified interactions among the scientific approaches to aesthetics. As a young discipline, neuroaesthetics faces lots of problems and challenges, for example, the inconsistency of research outcomes, deficiency of ecological validity, and risks of reduction.
Last Update: 2013-09-25